Simple Summary Horticultural crops are vulnerable to attack by many different weevil
species. Fungal entomopathogens provide an attractive alternative to synthetic insecticides …

Banana plant provides highly nutritional and medicinal valued fruit, flower, central core stem
as food and more economic value. However, during banana cultivation famers face …

Odoiporus longicollis [Olivier], commonly known as banana pseudostem weevil or BPW has
been a predominant pest of bananas, resulting in devastating losses in banana cultivation …

Banana ranks first in production and second among fruits grown in India. Banana is gaining
importance in the nontraditional areas due to its significance in the domestic and export …

Light emitting diode (LED)-based insect monitoring approach is drawing the attention of
researchers. In the present study, we evaluated the insect pest response to four different …

In the present study, a field and in vitro screening approaches were followed to identify the
resistant Musa accessions (n= 310) against banana corm weevil Cosmopolites sordidus …

Banana is known to be attacked by more than 250 insect pests around the world. Key pests
included rhizome weevil Cosmopolites sordidus, pseudostem borer Odoiporus longicollis …

Banana pseudostem borer Odoiporus longicollis Olivier is one of the serious monophagous
pest threatening the production and productivity of banana in south India. The native isolate …

In order to use entomopathogenic fungi (EPF) as biological control agents, it is necessary to
mass produce the EPF in an economical and cost-effective manner. Currently, the mass …

Management of Banana Pseudostem Weevil – A Biological Approach Page 1 Int.J.Curr.Microbiol.App.Sci
(2019) 8(10): 2270-2274 2270 Original Research Article https://doi.org/10.20546/ijcmas.2019.810.263 …